As he grew up a few years later, he deeply realized that the white man who shot his father would never allow him to threaten him. It would be a matter of time before he would kill himself. So he fled the farm and started Wandering. A kind hotel director took in the hungry and cold child, and slowly passed on his skills to our male lead, with this craftsmanship and a careful and humble heart, with the recommendation of the master Believe that he has come to Washington, the political center of the United States. Soon because of his outstanding performance in the hotel he served, he was recruited to the White House, the center of the incomparably sacred Washington, and started his legendary career as a servant of the White House.
The film is adapted from real people and real stories. The protagonist Cecil is a black man. In 1952, he applied for a food steward and entered the White House to work. During his 34 years in office, the President of the United States rotated eight, and Cecil eventually became the respected chief steward of the White House. Beginning in the Eisenhower era, Cecil served in the White House for 34 years, and finally retired as the "Chief Steward of the White House" when Reagan was in power. He has experienced 8 presidents before and after. What he witnessed included not only the Little Rock incident in which Eisenhower enforced human rights policies, the assassination of Kennedy, Nixon’s resignation due to the Watergate incident, the pain of the Vietnam War, the death of Martin Luther King and the resulting black riots and other major historical events. His perspective records the ups and downs experienced by the American black movement in these years, as well as the gradual improvement and promotion of black rights. During this period, the black servant of the White House witnessed a major event affecting the national process of the United States, and he himself Going through the stages in my life: getting married and having children, the eldest son’s rebellious follow Martin Luther King Jr. devoted himself to the struggle for human rights of the blacks, but the patriotic second son died in Vietnam. In his later years, Fang realized that his eldest son had always insisted. The struggle is correct, and he resolutely devotes himself to the struggle for human rights.
When President Obama gave his inaugural speech in the final stage of the film, one sentence: Who would still question at this moment that the United States is a country where everything is possible? This old man has already burst into tears and has witnessed the blacks’ deprivation of "property". "To be the president of the pinnacle of American power, the hardships along the way, serving the President for the White House for decades, and finally witnessing a person of the same skin color living in the White House, what an indescribable mood would be. When the old man came to the White House as a guest again, he was very proud when he came to this very familiar place again, staggering.
The film is starring by Forest Whitaker. When Denzel Washington once again sat on the throne of a black film king who had been in the dust for 50 years with his excellent performance in "Training Day" in 2002, Jamie Fox represented again in 2005. Blacks reached the top again. At the 79th Oscars in 2007, with the excellent role of the African dictator Ugandan President Andy Amin in a "Last Dictatorship", this outstanding black actor was also awarded by the American Film Academy. The highest compliment is the top spot on the podium. If Cecil, the protagonist in the film, has witnessed the gradual realization of his American dream by generations of blacks, until Obama gave the people of the world everything possible loudly, in fact, the actor’s own deductive career has also confirmed this sentence. In other words, it is really rare for a black man who is not handsome, to be crowned an Oscar actor by virtue of his own strength.
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